OK, now I do hate Apple.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
if you're using bash as your shell:
for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; rm "$f"; done
(NB do not blame me if this goes horribly wrong and fucks your machine up, cos I haven't tested it)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Ed, that reminds me why I don't do that - there seems to be a weird Finder bug on my machine, whereby if I right slick on more than one file that's selected, Finder immediately crashes 75% of the time. Very annoying!
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Note also that, when it crashes while opening an archive, it often leaves behind large invisible temp folders.
― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
[ducks]
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link
i see rather more of that beachball than i'd really like, even at other times
bit frustrating.
leaving dual core aside for now, how do these powerbook compare to pc laptops, performance wise?
― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link
i dunno. i mean, i cant justify the expense of a macbook pro, but i didnt really expect the powerbook to struggle with what seems a relatively light load
― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link
i might try installing it on the dell, be interesting to compare performance for it
― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link
yea, theres lotsa different ways of keeping the cpu down, but, you know, "deleting any system-draining plug-ins", isnt really what im looking to do!
― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
you know what i'm talkin about. when you try to turn the volume up or down with the keyboard and it responds like 10 seconds after you press the button, and moves one tick at a time, making a broken "thup thup thup thup thup" sound.
FOR YEARS NOW
(maybe this has changed with the intelbooks but AAARRRGH)
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― roc u like a ยง (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
CAN NOT CTACH A BREAK.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.internet-nexus.com/2007/01/im-mac-im-pc.htm
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link